Posted on 01/01/2023 12:00:54 AM PST by weston
Good morning, Gran, and, all!
Working, and, lurking! On the road for a few, but, checking in and trying to catch up.
Project V doing the work that BigMedia refuses to do. What a mess….literally, Biden has created. When do the nice people of El Paso wake up, about this invasion?
Hopefully, soon.
So sad about Diamond’s passing. RIP dear sister patriot.
Thanks for the pings!
😂😂
Good morning, Jane!
Was wondering where you were and glad you are checking in as I was about ready to send out the troops.
Been missing all your great comments.
Safe travels and have a wonderful day!
I hope you are better today.
Oh no, what sad news! Prayers for her dear sister and all family and loved ones. I loved that duo!
It’s tough listening to the dems. I know grade school kids that are smarter and more logical than most dems.
I remember Silk asking for prayers too. I didn’t see anything else so I assumed she was better. I don’t think she was very old. RIP Diamond.
I know he loves them too.
so young.
perfect breakfast! Hope you are doing well today!
Prayers for your well being.
Belated revelation classified documents found in private Biden office turns legal, political tables
Office where documents found was part of a think tank at Ivy League university that got significant Chinese funding.
By John Solomon
Updated: January 10, 2023 - 12:29amWhen Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Nov. 18 that he had named a special prosecutor to investigate former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents found at the Mar-a-Lago compound, the government harbored a fresh secret: The current president, Joe Biden, had a similar problem.
Just two weeks earlier, Biden’s lawyers disclosed to government lawyers on Nov. 2 — just six days before the midterm elections — that they had found sensitive government documents with classified markings inside an office that Biden used at the Penn Biden Center think tank in Washington after he left office as Barack Obama’s vice president.
The public was kept in the dark about the startling discovery until Monday, when the White House confirmed it was cooperating with an investigation launched by the Justice Department at the request of the same National Archives that has tussled with Trump over the last year.
The belated disclosure turned the political tables on Biden, who sharply criticized Trump for his document debacle last fall, while also raising troubling new questions that will be need to be answered by a U.S. Attorney in Illinois and Congress.
Those questions include:
•Are there any other documents missing from Biden’s government document collection from his time as vice president?
•Are there any other locations — insecure or secure — where Biden might have kept sensitive government secrets?
•Did the government delay notifying the public for political or other purposes, such as sparing Biden from criticism or to keep voters in the dark before Election Day?
•Did any foreign powers have access to the office space where the documents were found?
The latter question took on added significance Monday night because it has been known for years that the University of Pennsylvania received extensive Chinese funding — estimated in some media reports at $54 million — around and after the time Biden announced his policy think tank was going to be part of the university’s Washington program.
Republicans who chafed for months at the Biden Justice Department’s records battle with Trump immediately seized on the revelation and vowed a vigorous investigation.
“Under the Biden Administration, the Department of Justice and National Archives have made compliance with the Presidential Records Act a top priority,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the new chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, told Just the News. “We expect the same treatment for President Biden, who has apparently inappropriately maintained classified documents in an insecure setting for several years.”
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), a former White House physician, went even further to suggest Biden was a hypocrite, his administration guilty of a double standard and the whole episode possibly a national security risk.
“Biden knew for YEARS that he’s been storing HIGHLY CLASSIFIED documents in his personal office,” Jackson tweeted. “He KNEW it when FBI agents were raiding Mar-a-Lago, and he KNEW it when he appointed a partisan special counsel. HE KNEW THE WHOLE TIME BUT STILL HAD HIS DOJ GOONS PERSECUTE TRUMP!!”
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) said the connection of Chinese money to the university added a troubling aspect.
“This think tank received $54 million in funding from the CCP,” Biggs wrote on the Truth Social platform. “The Biden family highly concerns me.”
Trump himself was glad to turn the tables Monday night on his rival.
“When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House?” Trump asked in a post on Truth Social. “These documents were definitely not declassified.”
For now, the first line of business — to determine whether crimes were committed or other documents are missing — will fall to U.S. Attorney John Lausch, a Trump holdover in Illinois who has been asked by Garland to lead a review of the Biden documents.
A senior government official directly familiar with the discovery told Just the News that the National Archives asked the Justice Department to open an investigation in November after a small number of classified documents — some marked top secret — were found in a closet in the Penn Biden Center in Washington, where Biden worked after he left the Obama administration.
The White House released a statement Monday evening confirming the discovery and the investigation, saying Biden’s lawyers self-disclosed the existence of the documents when the office previously used by the president was being vacated for another party.
“The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice regarding the discovery of what appear to be Obama-Biden Administration records, including a small number of documents with classified markings,” White House special counsel Richard Sauber said in a statement after the discovery was reported by CBS and CNN. “The documents were discovered when the President’s personal attorneys were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C.”
Biden “used this space from mid-2017 until the start of the 2020 campaign,” Sauber said. “On the day of this discovery, November 2, 2022, the White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives. The Archives took possession of the materials the following morning.”
He added: “The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives. Since that discovery, the President’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives.”
Tom Fitton, president of the Judicial Watch watchdog group, told Just the News the Biden disclosure will have both a political and legal boomerang.
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The dems REALLY don’t like the subcmte on the “Weaponization of the Federal Government”. I wonder why? 🤔
I just saw the commie media are saying this is nothing compared to what bad man Trump did.
Diamond wasn’t very old, only 51.
This is such a sad loss for her family and for us too who enjoyed and loved her and her sister so much.
They are being vocal alright, saying there is no comparison and Biden did nothing wrong.
Thanks for posting.
They’ll do it whether they have the power or not.
We know about sources and methods, Joe.
Colorado Governor is in hot water with other dems because he’s been shipping migrants to other dem States. Mayors Adams and Lightfoot are pi$$ed!
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